Kïss
surname · Latin script
Kïss is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,990 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From the adjective kis (“small”).
- SKSlovakia1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 12K
- NONorway1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kïss itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 299 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
3,990 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kiss in US United States, RO Romania, CH Switzerland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From the adjective kis (“small”).
Cited for this meaning 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kïss is found
(measured from records)Kïss counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,990 | 1 in 83K | 4K | Kiss | 299 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 2,888 | 1 in 1.9K | 2.9K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,015 | 1 in 209K | 1K | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 689 | 1 in 12K | 689 | Kiss | 25 |
| ES Spain | — | 411 | 1 in 122K | 411 | — | 28 |
| FI Finland | — | 238 | 1 in 23K | 238 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 238 | 1 in 23K | 238 | — | 9 |
| DK Denmark | — | 196 | 1 in 30K | 196 | — | — |
| RO Romania | #334 | — | — | — | Kiss | 33 |
3,990 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kïss mean, and where does it come from?
- From the adjective kis (“small”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 4 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kïss?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Kïss, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kiss. After it come Slovakia, Brazil, Switzerland and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kïss most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kïss is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kïss?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,990 people named Kïss in 2010, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
- How common is Kïss compared with other names?
- In Romania, Kïss is the 334th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%AFssThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kïss” — ranked 8305th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.